Clayton Patterson’s “Jews: A People’s History of the Lower East Side” Now Available

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Years of research,writing, and fundraising recently culminated in the release of Jews: A People’s History of the Lower East Side. The three-volume tome, co-edited by Clayton Patterson and sociology professor Dr. Mareleyn Schneider, is exactly as it sounds. An exploratory neighborhood history populated by more than 150 chapters of essays and photos by nearly 200 contributors.

The books are now available for purchase through Amazon. A party celebrating the release is scheduled for February 13 at Angel Orensanz on Norfolk Street.

Below is the table of contents for Volume 1 as a taste:

PART 1: INVOKING THE LOST PAST
Suzanne Wasserman: The Disappearing Jewish Lower East Side, circa 1935, p.3
Laurie Tobias Cohen: Lower East Side Conservancy, p. 9
Shulamith Z. Berger & Jai Zion: Ritz with a Shvitz: Luxury on the Lower East Side, p. 12
Joyce Mendelsohn: Public Baths on the Lower East Side, p. 16
Lee Stein Rubins: The Good Old Days on the Lower East Side, p. 23
Eleanor B. Itzkowitz &Joan Israel: 275 East 7th Street: An Enduring Family Legacy, p. 33
David Stein: A 1966 Journey through the Lower East Side, p. 39
Shulamith Z. Berger: The Forward’s Edifice Complex, p. 45
David Stein: Hot Lead Is Dead, 1979, p. 49

PART 2: PRESERVING A LEGACY OF VALUES
Shlomo Stein: Selection from Ethical Will (1958), p. 52
Mareleyn Schneider: Ethical Will (2000), p. 54
Mareleyn Schneider: How to Write Your Own Ethical Will, p. 57
Clayton Patterson: Hidden Treasures: The Danny Stein Archives, p. 60
Mareleyn Schneider: Documenting the Jewish Lifecycle and Presence on the Lower East Side:
The Daniel Stein Collection, p. 66
Marvin Greisman: The Morality Police on the Lower East Side, p. 83
David Stein: The Heart of the Father and the Heart of the Son Shall Beat as One, p. 88

PART 3: DISOBEDIENT JEWS?
Joeseph Kraus: Swinging at Shadows: Toward a History of the Lower East Side Tough Guy, p. 91
Mareleyn Schneider: Jewish Presence in the Essex Market Court: What Happened There, p. 96
Juda Engelmayer: Without an Eruv, Gentrification Is Useless to Save the Traditional Jewish
Lower East Side, p. 104
A.J. Weberman: The Story of the Jewish Defense Organization and the Lower East Side,
Actually the Bowery, p. 109
Robert Dannin: Early Communitarian Experiments on the Lower East Side: Social Reform
Practices in New York City During the Gilded Age, p. 112

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